Karnataka

Bengaluru, Aug 3: The Karnataka government on Friday announced that it will soon deposit the first instalment of an additional sum of Rs 2,000 under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana in the bank accounts of farmers. "As many as 43.75 lakh declarations of farmers have been sent to Government of India under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana. Out of this, Rs 634.50 crore has been

Bengaluru, Aug 3: After failing to secure his government in the state, former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy is now planning to field his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy for Krishnaraja Pete assembly constituency's by-poll. The JDS leader is trying to strengthen his party in the Mysore region. In the recent Lok Sabha elections, his son Nikhil was defeated from Mandya despite having a stronghold with seven

Mangaluru, Aug 3: An LPG gas tanker toppled on National Highway-75 between Mangaluru and Bengaluru at Rekya village near Nelyadi on Friday, bringing traffic to a halt, for close to five hours. The incident took place around 12pm, when the gas-laden vehicle was moving towards Bengaluru from Mangaluru. Traffic on the national highway was hit for nearly five hours, due to the accident, and the

Bengaluru, Aug 2: In a major reshuffle of IPS officers in Karnataka, Bhaskar Rao has been appointed as the Additional General of Police (ADGP) and Commissioner of Bengaluru city Police here on Friday. "Bhaskar Rao, Karnataka cadre IPS officer of batch 1990, is transferred with immediate effected and posted until further orders as ADGP and Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru City vice Alok Kumar, IPS

Bengaluru, Aug 2: The Karnataka State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), after assuming power in the state again last week, has targeted to enlist as many as 50 lakh new party members, and ten per cent of them will be from Minority communities, a top party leader said on Friday. Speaking to newsmen here, BJP State General Secretary, N Ravikumar, who is also in-charge for BJP’s membership

Bengaluru, Aug 2 Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa today exhorted the Senior officials to address the grievances of the common people and discharge their duties on humaneterian ground. Addressing a meeting of the Deputy Commissioners, Chief Executive Officers and Secretaries, Principal Secretaries and Additional Chief Secretaries, here on Friday, the new Chief Minister warned stating that

Kannur, Aug 2: The Kerala High Court on Friday set aside a single bench order for a CBI probe into the killing of a Youth Congress leader in Kannur district. The division bench headed by Chief Justice Hrishikesh Roy allowed an appeal filed by the Kerala government against the single judge bench order. In its appeal, the government had contended that the single bench passed the order on March 7

Bengaluru, Aug 2: The government may be inclined for an out-of-court settlement in its dispute with banks over unpaid service tax dues to the tune of Rs 38,000 crore with officials indicating a more flexible stance to resolve the outstanding issues. Sources in the government said that officials in the Finance Ministry may soon meet bankers to thrash out a compromise formula to resolve the issue

Hubli, Aug 2: A three-month-long cloud seeding project has been launched at the Hubballi International Airport here to stimulate artificial rainfall in the North Karnataka region on Friday. M Deepa, Deputy Commissioner, who launched the project told media: "The three-month-long cloud seeding project will aim at catering rainfall in the North Karnataka region." Cloud seeding, a type of weather

Bengaluru, Aug 2: Soon after assuming office as the chief minister of Karnataka for fourth time, B S Yediyurappa has initiated steps to withdraw cases against about 2,000 saffron activists in connection with the violent protests across Uttara Kannada district in December 2017. In a note issued to the additional chief secretary, home department, S Selvakumar, secretary to the chief minister, stated